Criminal justice clients are a considerable portion of clientele who take part in drug and alcohol treatment facilities in Erie and in the USA. Judges in the U.S. are finding it more effective to rehabilitate individuals who have found their way into the court system for drug related crimes, rather than punishing them to no avail with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more effective to tackle the problem of drug or alcohol addiction more straightforwardly, than to enforce such penalties. Most who do not wind up in alcohol and drug treatment will often turn right back up in the criminal justice system, whilst criminal justice clients in drug treatment generally don't fall back into drug use and have a much better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system for good.